Vintage & Out-of-Print Children's Illustrated Books - pg. 33 including Ragged Staff, Theby: C. M. Edmonston & M. L. F. Hyde

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black stamped decoration. Mild fade to spine. 315 pages, Blue endpapers design and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Peter Farmer. Unclipped dust jacket with mild shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1964, Hardcover, 61 pages illustrated in color by Jack Merryweather. Library stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Story of a skunk who makes friends with cowboys on a western ranch. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ib Ohlsson. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. Colorful facts about Stetson's life in this account of a man whose legacy includes more than a hat.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company,, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 100 pages, b&w illustrations and decorative page borders by Vera Bock. A collection of tales about India. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 56 pages, b&w illustrations by Jean Gralley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and corner decorations, maroon endpapers, 259 pages, b&w drawings by Oliver Herford. Timothy, age ten, sets out to rescue his two year old foster "sister" with his dog Rags. Clean copy, slight cock to spine. Originally published in 1891.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color decorated boards, 68 pages. B&w illustrations by Crockett Johnson. "All three stories are about Willie, a hardy independent young man, who meets the world open-eyed and unafraid." (jacket notes). Willie's Animal; Willie's Pockets; Willie's Walk. (Willie's Walk was previously published as a separate book in 1944). Light soil to covers, bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear, color illustrations by Helen Craig. Robin Hood creates chaos in the palace, lures the king and queen and their soldiers into the forest, and is hailed as a hero by the poor.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce , 1st US, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a red cloth spine. 24 pages (printed on one side only), color Illustrations by Dette, printed in Sweden. Light stains to cardboard covers otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Dust jacket price-clipped with light soiling, HarperCrest label on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Egielski. When a homeless rat named Slim is forced into a life of crime, he encounters a kind young mouse named Jim, who's willing to take him in and give him a chance. But when Slim's checkered past catches up to him, their friendship is put to the test. Together they must do battle with the evil villain Buster, relying upon their faith in one another -- and their yo-yos. In this Oliver Twist for tots, Richard Egielski tells a tale of true friendship and creates characters as memorable as Fagin, Bill Sikes, and the Artful Dodger.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 40 pages illustrated in color by Egielski. When a homeless rat named Slim is forced into a life of crime, he encounters a kind young mouse named Jim, who's willing to take him in and give him a chance. But when Slim's checkered past catches up to him, their friendship is put to the test. Together they must do battle with the evil villain Buster, relying upon their faith in one another -- and their yo-yos. In this Oliver Twist for tots, Richard Egielski tells a tale of true friendship and creates characters as memorable as Fagin, Bill Sikes, and the Artful Dodger.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, oblong, 83 pages. Black & white & red woodcut illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket price-clipped, shows some wear and chipping at edges.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. Join beloved babysitting Rottweiler Carl in author/artist Alexandra Day's perfectly joyous holiday children's picture book, Carl's Christmas . After helping baby decorate the family tree, Carl and his charge share an adventure-filled Christmas Eve complete with window shopping, giving to the needy, and a visit with Santa Claus. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, illustrated in color by author.SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. The rottweiler goes to a costume party.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN on the half-title page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Elizabeth Cleaver. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket edges and spine, small closed tear to front cover upper edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, areas of staining, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked pages. A child eye's view of moving day. No statement of first on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Brown throughout. Ex-lib with minor markings, paste residue on back end-paper. Light edgewear to bottom edges. First published in 1946.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. New Yorker cartoonist (and creator of the altogether ooky Addams Family characters) Charles Addams tampers with tradition to great effect in The Charles Addams Mother Goose, first published in 1967, and now reissued as a deluxe edition. While Ms. Goose's original nursery rhymes remain unchanged, Addams casts his spell on a selected few poems with new visual twists. A less wholesome, more anemic Mistress Mary has never been seen, and her bare-lightbulb-lit basement garden of mushrooms and heads of "pretty maids all in a row" is quite unsettling. Jack Sprat and his wife are, of course, cannibals. Nine-day-old porridge is disgusting... so naturally a witch is the porridge preparer, and goblins are the only ones who would like it "nine days old." Humpty Dumpty's story, on the other hand, feels a little cheerier than the original: rather than leaving the egg irreparably broken, the illustrator shows a dinosaur hatching! Tee Addams, Charles Addams's wife, writes an insightful introduction for this lovely, oversized edition, and the book closes with a scrapbook of family photos and pictures of Addams's earlier work. Kids familiar with Mother Goose's rhymes will be delighted (and perhaps only slightly terrified) by Addams's playful interpretations.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Brilliant color illustrations by Stanley. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Scott Foresman and Company, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. Three-color illustrations throughout by Leo Politi. Originally published by Viking Press in 1944, this is a reprint edition with a 33 1/3 vinyl record in a pocket at the rear In pristine condition. Scarce thus. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, The Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautifully illustrated tribute to the men who built our country's bridges, railroads, skyscrapers, etc. Watercolor art by Barry Moser. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ann Schweninger in Color. Price sticker on the back of dust jacket.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Probable Second Printing, as an 1898 edition is mentioned on copyright page. 253 pages. Front cover is decorated with the boy and his grinning fiddling bear. With white lettering and design elements on pink-orange hardcover. Illustrated throughout with 35 b&w drawings by Frank Verbeck. White 'E" on cover faded as is spine lettering. Some fraying to bottom of spine. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. The monster family portrait on the cover sets the tone of comic exaggeration in this Ukrainian-Hutzul version of an age-old story. When a traveler is lost in the woods, the witch Three Eyes agrees to help him find his way back if he agrees to give her his most precious possession. Only when he gets home does he realize that he has bargained away his beloved daughter, Larissa.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Evan Turk. As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees--and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art--by disarming classmates who bully him because he's Jewish, by defying his teachers' insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, The Innovation Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Daniel Rieley. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Ellen dreamed of becoming a professional flutist, but all of that changed when she discovered engineering in college. Though she was told that field of study wasn't for girls, the bright young scientist refused to give up--ultimately becoming a NASA astronaut who shattered barriers and rocketed to success!

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLUEMIE on title page. Color illustrations by C. Brian Karas. The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas's warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline. Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry has crafted a beautiful picture book about the power of longing and the importance of reconnection between a girl and her father in post-WWII America.This is the story of young Liz, her father, and their strained relationship. Dad has been away at WWII for longer than she can remember, and they begin their journey of reconnection through a hunting shirt, cherry pie, tender conversation, and the crow call. This allegorical story shows how, like the birds gathering above, the relationship between the girl and her father is graced with the chance to fly.

Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated second printing of this ingenious picture puzzle book with a hidden story told through the vibrant illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in illustrated boards. Malachy Doyle's fanciful "small" tale, illustrated in delightful detail by Carll Cneut, will bring smiles to anyone who has ever missed the comforts of home. When Antonio visits his grandmother on a tiny island on the other side of the world, he has a whale of a time. But there's one slight problem: he seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Before long, he can't even throw jam sandwiches to the sea monsters because he's too small to see over the side of his grandmother's boat. "You're missing your mom," notes his granny, who tells him it's time that he headed for home. So he finds a job on a sailing ship - and then the increasingly small Antonio's big adventures really begin. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Saxonville MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards with a black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Eve Tharlet, translation by Athena Bell. Children will be charmed by Bell's translation of the tale about the tailor who advertised his prowess by embroidering a sash proclaiming "Seven at a Blow." The narrative respects the original story; the text is not diluted, and it is lengthy. Vocabulary such as courtiers, contemptuously, and desperate adds to the vitality of the story. The settings and clothing in Tharlet's detailed and appropriate soft-toned watercolor washes suggest the Middle Ages.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright die-cut dust jacket with decorated boards. Printed on yellow paper. Colorized illustrations. Dark green ribbon page marker. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, mild soil, else a clean, tight copy. Charming color illustrations and numbers in 12 different languages, including Urdu, Welsh and Gaelic-Irish.

Hardcover. NY, Larousse, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dustjacket. Translated by Anthea Bell. Color illustrations by Svend Otto S. Some foxing to covers. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. 10 color illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Six fold-out maps. Marbled edges. Endpapers with light foxing. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn. A fascinating work of hunting and natural history by journalist and novelist James Greenwood discusses the history, habits and physiology of a number of species of big game, including tigers, elephants, hippos and leopards. The work also offers information regarding the methods of their hunting including weaponry and tactical movements. The work is particularly noted for its discussion regarding deer hunting, with anecdotal evidence regarding the capacity of the white tail deer to heal from extremely serious wounds.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 98 pages, color illustrations by Gruelle. Cardboard covers with edge and corner wear, but clean and bright, black cloth spine.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co., reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Gruelle. Illustrated cardboard covers with edge and corner wear, but clean and bright, black cloth spine. unmarked. Two pages with short tears, small tape repair, some creases.